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Jewel-Tone Pancakes with Creamy Yogurt-Dill Sauce

Similar to a potato pancake, a beautiful beet pancake topped with dilled yogurt sauce makes a great appetizer, or you can serve two or three as a light entrée. The batter will look loose at first, but after a few minutes the pancakes will be sturdy enough to flip.

Instructions:

1. To make Yogurt-Dill Sauce: Whisk together yogurt, dill, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and pepper in small bowl. Refrigerate until ready to use, up to 3 days.

2. To make Pancakes: Preheat oven to 250°F. Coat baking sheet with cooking spray, and set aside. Shred beets and carrots in food processor fitted with grating blade, or grate with box grater. Place beet-carrot mixture in large bowl, and toss with garlic and salt. Add egg and egg whites, and mix well.

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Comments on this Recipe

Comment by Anonymous

These were great! The sauce creates a savory taste and seems to really balance out the flavors. The pancakes did not really stay together well when I made them with eggs. So I tried omitting the eggs and using chickpea flour with a bit of water and they turned out wonderful. I'd say use 1-1/4 cups chickpea flour and about a 3-4 TBS water.

Tasty patties! Thanks to the suggestions from Anonymous above, I used the chickpea flour instead of eggs. To save time, i also baked the patties at 375 on oiled parchment paper (flipping once), rather than frying individually. I made them pretty large, more like 1/2 c rather than 1/4 c since i was having these for dinner. I really enjoyed the yogurt sauce on these too!

I believe the recipe asks to preheat the oven so you can store the patties that are done in there to stay warm. It's not part of the 'cooking' process. Yes, the beets and carrots should be raw when shredding. Hope this helps!
ps The dish came out wonderfully :)

Mark Bittman's Beet Roesti with Rosemary recipe uses 1/2 c. flour with 2 lbs. beets, no carrots, no eggs. It always works beautifully for me. I haven't made this with the carrots, but intuitively they may have less sugar and so not caramelize the same.